• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
What'sCookin'Chicago?
  • About
  • Recipe Index
    • By Cuisine
    • By Holiday
    • Collections
  • Recipe Videos
  • Vegetarian
  • Winter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
whatscookinchicago-logo

What'sCookin'Chicago?

  • About
  • Recipe Index
    • By Cuisine
    • By Holiday
    • Collections
  • Recipe Videos
  • Vegetarian
  • Winter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
Home » Food Feasts » Celebrate Chicago with Friends!

Celebrate Chicago with Friends!

September 28, 2007 · WCC Administr@tr · 3 Comments

“What’s Cooking” has a special meaning to me and quite a few women all over the country. To us, it is the cooking forum we gather on everyday to talk about daily life, food, cooking, baking and all things food related. The forum helped form some special bonds with food enthusiasts and as a result of our growing friendships, we decided to come together for a weekend of food, fun and friendship here in Chicago. We had women representing Pennsylvania, Michigan, Texas, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin, California and of course, Chicago attend throughout the weekend.

As a resident of Chicago, I offered to host our first What’s Cooking National Get Together Weekend here in the lovely city of Chicago. With so much food history and food culture, Chicago served as a perfect place to indulge on some good eats.

Tonight was the first night of our weekend together. To welcome them to Chicago, I hosted a “Celebrate Chicago!” dinner that included foods that were special to Chicago and Chicago history. Here are some pics from our dinner together:

Strawberry Spinach Salad w/cinnamon dressingpicture030-5679887
Mediterranean Pasta Saladpicture034-8917791
Chicago Style Hot Dogs & Maxwell Street Polishes
& Condiments:
picture041-7505880spicy brown mustard, chopped onion, yellow mustard,
green relish, sport peppers, sliced tomatoes,

sliced cucumbers, caramelized onions, celery salt
picture031-9219785
Papa Charlie’s Italian Beef w/Turano bread rollspicture037-5760248picture038-7579276
Jay’s Chips – a Chicago original!
picture039-8855603
Wheat Beer Bread w/Bacon Garlic Dippicture045-7662648
Crudite Platter w/Garlic Onion Dippicture048-4996588
Affy Tapples Caramel Applespicture042-4497119

Eli’s Cheesecake – cherry & plain

picture044-4958373
Table Shots:
picture051-7722781picture052-6821810

picture049-3712857picture050-2585069
Lee (MrsNukem) – Houston
& Shanna (LadyMcbth) – Pittsburgh
picture060-3988624
Linda (Lindad) & her DH – St. Louispicture059-6853800
Jen (bride7/15/05) & Wayne – new to Chicago from Ohiopicture061-8610921
Nickie (Mrs.Liberto) – new to Chicago from Californiapicture062-9940624
Where there is food, we will follow…
Lee & Shanna
picture054-6922835
(L-R) Linda, Stephanie (beebe from Michigan behind the flowers),
Nickie, Jen, Wayne, Shanna)
picture056-1116691

(L-R) Stephanie, Lee, Shanna, Linda, Linda’s DH picture057-7228356picture058-9251289picture055-1888817
watching the games to appease the husbands
(L-R) Linda, Wayne, Jen , Shanna, Lee,
Dale, Steph (behind Dale), Nickie
picture063-2503282
(L-R) Jen, Wayne, Dale, Stephanie, Nickiepicture047-6053001

Food Feasts, Menus, Nesties GTG, Party Ideas

Previous Post: « Mushroom & Onion Brown Rice Pilaf
Next Post: Pizza, Chocolate & Sushi »

NEVER MISS A POST

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




Comments

  1. Anonymous says

    October 1, 2007 at 1:37 am

    Looks like you all had the best time!! Thanks for sharing the picks.

    Reply
  2. Anonymous says

    October 1, 2007 at 1:37 am

    oops, that should have said “pics”

    Reply
  3. Mchicago says

    October 1, 2007 at 11:44 am

    Joelen

    Great looking table!

    Thanks for including Eli’s Cheesecake in your Chicago Culinary Celebration.

    Come visit us at Eli’s Cheesecake World.

    Best wishes,

    Marc Schulman
    Eli’s President

    Reply

Primary Sidebar

me
Hi, I'm Joelen! Welcome to What's Cookin, Chicago. My goal is to share my culinary adventures in hopes to inspire you to embrace life in a delicious way.
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Footer

whatscookinchicago-logo
Welcome to What’s Cookin, Chicago. Our goal is to share our culinary adventures in hopes to inspire you to embrace life in a delicious way…

NEVER MISS A POST

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

SEARCH THIS SITE

  • About
  • Recipe Index
  • Wine & Dine
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact

Copyright © 2023 · What's Cookin' Chicago